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The fear of employment replacement through automation hinders creativity which would actually provide safer, better and more meaningful employment.
If people (workers, consumers, neighbours) would own or have a foot in their workplaces (i.e. cooperatives), they would care more about that.
Because in reality these businesses don't offer better, more meaningful employment for the people they replace by making the customers work.
It's just more people in the unemployment fodder.
My local coop refuses to add self-checkout lanes and this is why I shop there even though it's more expensive than the alternatives.
Fuck corporate greed.
It's not really automation though. The store is outsourcing labor to the consumer.
The automation are the API and the security cameras.
Which, as a customer, provide absolutely no value to me.
Yeah, surveillance steals value from consumers.
Self-checkout seems better to me, because it decreases monotonous and forced public interaction (thus somewhat automated anyway): Beep. Beep. Beep. Do you want loyalty points? That's 21.46€. Do you want the receipt? Goodbye! Beep. Beep. Beep...
It uses less space.
It is parallel instead of serial.
The work is not much more than putting groceries on a checkout lane anyway, except for unlabelled fruits and vegetables.
Self-checkout allows for smaller stores and coops, for example in villages or as kiosk.
Oh no, you had to answer two yes/no questions
The worst inconvenience in the world.
Parallel vs serial: there's usually more than one check out lane open so idk what you waffling about.
Less space is not a convenience for me so idgaf
My local coop has regular check out lanes and it's in a small town so idk what you waffling about.